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Monthly Archives: June 2007

More Google maps stuff

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

This Google Maps API Tutorial website has some very good how-tos on Google Maps.
Needless to say, I added some of those things like Fitting the map to the data and Lots of sidebar entries to my maps. Check out the New Zealand and Firenze maps.

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HP Unix info

Thursday, June 21, 2007

This is useful on HP Unix machines. It just prints out a few pieces of data of the machine.

echo "HP Unix version : " `uname -a`
echo "Model : " `/usr/bin/model`
[...]

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How much space does an Oracle table take up ?

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The following queries can be used to find out how much space a table takes up. The first query gets the block size used in this database. The second one shows how many blocks are used for a table.

SELECT value
FROM v$parameter
WHERE name = ‘db_block_size’;
 
SELECT blocks, [...]

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Creating a Google map using XML

Monday, June 18, 2007

You can also create Google Maps using XML : check out this
article.

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